'Rick Perlstein has written a fascinating account of the rise of Richard Nixon and a persuasive argument that this angry, toxic man will always be part of the American landscape.' - Richard Reeves author of President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination What a delight it is to discover the new generation of historians like Rick Perlstein not only getting history correct but giving us all fresh insights and understanding of it.' - John W. This riveting book, full of colorful detail and great characters, brings back to life an astonishing era - and shines a new light on our own.' - Jeffrey Toobin author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know - American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 19 - into an often surprising and always fascinating new narrative. 'A richly detailed descent into the inferno - that is, the years when Richard Milhous Nixon, 'a serial collector of resentments,' ruled the land.' - Kirkus Reviews Filled with prodigious research and driven by a powerful narrative, Rick Perlstein’s magisterial account of how it all happened confirms his place as one of our country’s most celebrated historians. Out of its ashes, the political world we know now was born. Between 19 America experienced no less than a second civil war. Yet the next year, scores of liberals were tossed out of Congress, America was more divided than ever, and a disgraced politician was on his way to a shocking comeback: Richard Nixon. Perlstein’s epic account begins in the blood and fire of the 1965 Watts riots, nine months after Lyndon Johnson’s historic landslide victory over Barry Goldwater appeared to herald a permanent liberal consensus in the United States. Told with vivid urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America’s turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency of the United States. Rick Perlstein’s bestselling account of how the Nixon era laid the groundwork for the political divide that marks our country today.

Rick Perlstein has turned a story we think we know-American politics between the opposing presidential landslides of 19-into an often-surprising and always-fascinating new narrative.” -Jeffrey Toobin

“Both brilliant and fun, a consuming journey back into the making of modern politics.” -Jon Meacham

His success is dazzling.” - Los Angeles Times “Perlstein.aims here at nothing less than weaving a tapestry of social upheaval.

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